David Landau

Born and raised in England, David Landau studied at yeshivot in Israel and took a law degree at London University . He worked for The Jerusalem Post and Maariv . He joined Haaretz in 1993, was involved in the creation of the English edition. He was also Israel correspondent for The Economist. He is the author of Piety and Power: The World of Jewish Fundamentalism.

The evening opened with the award ceremony for the Chaim Bermant Prize.
“I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.” – Tom Stoppard
David Landau is the editor of the avowedly secular and progressive Israeli daily, Haaretz. As an orthodox Jew, Landau was not an obvious choice for the position, but states that the only way of negotiating one’s way through Israel’s impossibly self-divided body pol...